New York Hospital Queens Partners with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to Improve Heath Care in Greece

Flushing, New York, December 2, 2010 –
New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ) has been awarded a $500,000 grant
by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Funds will support the
Hellenic American Emergency Medicine Exchange (HAEME) Fellowship for the
next five years through 2015. Each year, NYHQ will train four
physicians from Greece on critical aspects of emergency medicine.
This will allow them to provide a higher quality of care to their
patients when they return to Greece.

As a community teaching hospital, NYHQ has a long and successful history
of training physicians from all over the world. Queens is one of
the most diverse communities in the U.S. and is home to a large number
of people of Greek descent, which includes many NYHQ medical staff
members and patients. Our graduate medical education program
includes a fully accredited emergency medicine residency training
program. NYHQ is a designated Level I Trauma Center that is fully
equipped and staffed to manage life-threatening injuries. Last
year, 115,000 people were treated through the emergency department.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has always supported long range
collaborative efforts in health care and medicine, which allow
partnering institutions to accomplish significant results by sharing
each other’s science, research, treatment, and medical strengths.
The Foundation’s Board of Directors said, “We are proud to have been
offered the opportunity to support this important initiative, which will
allow Greek physicians to take advantage of NYHQ’s strengths and
expertise in emergency medicine, and consequently, to respond directly
and effectively to the health needs of individuals and communities
throughout Greece.”

Michael Radeos, M.D., MPH, research director, Department of Emergency
Medicine, developed the program and will serve as the HAEME Fellowship
Director. “Greece does not yet have a specialty in emergency
medical care,” said Dr. Radeos. “As a first-generation
Greek-American, and a board-certified residency-trained emergency
physician, I wanted to help develop an in-country safety net for
patients who require immediate treatment for life and limb-threatening
injuries.”

“For over 50 years, we have worked diligently to ensure that people have
access to high quality care where they live, work and play,” said
Stephen S. Mills, president and chief executive officer. “This
generous award allows us to share our expertise with and develop
emergency trained physicians in Greece, who not only provide critical
emergency medical care but also serve as a source of new knowledge and
skills for other physicians.”

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (www.SNF.org),
an international philanthropic organization, makes grants in the areas
of arts and culture, education, health and medicine, and social welfare.
While prominent in its support of initiatives that focus on Greece, the
Foundation’s activities are worldwide in scope. The Foundation funds
institutions and projects that exhibit strong leadership and sound
management, and that have the potential to achieve a broad and lasting
impact. We encourage grantees to collaborate, and we work closely with
them to monitor their progress. In addition, the Foundation
actively seeks to support projects that facilitate the formation of
public-private partnerships as effective means for serving public
welfare.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation was founded by Stavros S. Niarchos to
support and promote his vision and interests in education, social
welfare, health and medicine, and arts and culture. Since 1996, the
Foundation has provided total grant commitments of €895,000,000
($1,200,000,000) through more than 1,900 grants to nonprofit
organizations in 90 nations around the world.

New York Hospital Queens is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian
Healthcare System and is affiliated with Weill Medical College of
Cornell University.